Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 480 Mass. 146 - Commonwealth v. Robinson

Commonwealth v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Waller v. Georgia · Freytag v. Commissioner · Presley v. Georgia · Weaver v. Massachusetts

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “For purposes of determining whether the defendant's claim was properly preserved at trial, it is ... legally irrelevant that [the defendant] now presents the claim as a Sixth Amendment violation rather than a claim that his counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to perceive and object to the closure.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “where a defendant fails to contemporaneously object to an improper court room closure at trial, we have steadfastly held that the defendant's claim is procedurally waived”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.